Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
So he is a 737 pilot and you are a refrigeration engineer, is that right? Just going by your profile.
That is correct.
There is several similarities between those two professions.
The control software of complicated refrigeration plants occasionally contains one or more serious flaws.
The control software of aircrafts seems to occasionally contain one or two serious flaw(s).
The ability of the engineers and management responsible for the (flawed) software seems to vary.
The ability of the operators (read pilots) to handle the consequences of those flaws also seems to vary.
In both of those professions it is clear that engineers and management can not rely on operators beeing able to reliably compensate for seriously flawed software. Insted the engineers and mangement need to make sure there is no serious flaw in the software and that the flaws that might be there is not serious enough to completely shut down the plant (read aircraft).